“If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.” IfsKnowsWantNeedsShouldWaitingHalfLeaderStepsPlansLateInnovationCustomersConsumersToo LateBusiness LeadersGood Business Author:Stuart Rose
“Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait - put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.” PeopleKnowsWantDoeSaidIdeasHandsWould BeJobsWaitingLinesRecordsPlansThousandInnovationIndependentAddMy FavoriteUglyStoresLabelsFeaturesCrucialPresentationSaying NoSaying YesRecord LabelsItunes Author:Derek Sivers
“You can not plan to make a discovery. You do not plan innovation.” PlansDiscoveryInnovationManagementCan Not Author:W. Edwards Deming
“Building a smarter grid has long been a key part of our government's plan to modernize our energy infrastructure and provide clean, reliable affordable power to consumers. By supporting Ryerson's Centre for Urban Energy we are building a whole new landscape for innovations that will be the backbone for our energy system for future generations.” LongWholeGovernmentEnergyPlansGenerationsBuildingKeysInnovationCleanConsumersLandscapeSmarterUrbanCentreInfrastructureFuture GenerationAffordableBackboneGrids Author:Bob Chiarelli
“I would like to see policy makers and international donor agencies realize that it is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of successful innovations.” GivingShouldMadeEnoughRealizingSuccessfulPlansPolicyProjectsInnovationInternationalAgencyMakersDemonstrationDonorsPolicy Makers Author:Ruth Simmons
“It is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of successful innovations.” GivingShouldMadeEnoughSuccessfulPlansProjectsInnovationDemonstration Author:Ruth Simmons
“Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace.” PeopleWantGivingAbilityPlansInnovationAgreeCompetitionPopulationMarketplace Author:Maria Cantwell
“Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.” InspirationSuccessOpportunityPlansReadyInnovationBusiness SuccessGood Opportunity Author:Eric Schmidt